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House rejects expansion of governmental immunity for University of Utah Medical Center
Summary
After extended floor debate, the House voted down S.B. 53, a bill intended to explicitly extend Utah's Governmental Immunity Act to cover the University of Utah Medical Center and associated programs; opponents said the change would unduly limit malpractice remedies. Vote: 27-46 (fails).
The Utah House declined to adopt Senate Bill 53, which would have clarified that the University of Utah Medical Center and its associated programs and clinics are covered under the state Governmental Immunity Act.
Representative Stevens (S21), the floor sponsor, described the bill as a clarification that restores the statute to its prior form before a 1989 Supreme Court decision (the…
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